SARAJEVO (AP) - The presidents of former foes Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro yesterday gathered for a two-day meeting to discuss relations 10 years after the end of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. The meeting, at Mount Igman near Sarajevo, was organized in part to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the war’s end, the country’s presidential office said. Meeting participants included the head of Bosnia’s presidential troika, Ivo Miro Jovic, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic. Today they are expected to sign an agreement stating that future relations should be based on mutual respect of sovereignty and internal affairs, and pledging to improve cooperation.

COLOGNE (AP) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday attended a Turkish group’s headquarters in Cologne, Germany and was to meet outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a staunch ally of his country’s European Union membership bid. Erdogan visited the Cologne headquarters of the Union of European Turkish Democrats, a group that was founded last year and aims to strengthen Turks’ integration in European society. The government and organizers said he and Schroeder would attend a dinner later yesterday. Erdogan’s trip follows a visit to Istanbul by Schroeder last month.

Turkey on Saturday harshly criticized Denmark for failing to revoke the broadcasting license of a Kurdish television station which Ankara says is a mouthpiece of armed Kurdish rebels. “They are not banning a television station which gives support to ethnic terrorism. They have been procrastinating,” Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency. “This is against EU legislation,” the minister charged while on a visit to Stockholm. Turkey has long been asking Danish authorities to take action against Roj TV on the grounds that the station is linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), deemed by Turkey, the European Union and the United States to be a terrorist organization. (AFP)

A close aide to Serbia’s slain prime minister Zoran Djindjic founded a new liberal party on Saturday, proclaiming the struggle against the Balkan republic’s conservative government as its goal. The 400 party members elected Cedomir Jovanovic president of the Liberal Democrats at the party’s initial convention in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. A reformist and former student leader, Jovanovic played a key role in ex-president Slobodan Milosevic’s ouster in 2000 and his extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal a year later. (AP)

A village in southern Turkey was yesterday shaken by an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, the Anatolia news agency reported. There were no reports of property damage or casualties following the tremor in Dosemealti. (AFP)